Ritchie slams Department over Strangford Ferry failures

Posted on 09/12/2016 by Margaret Ritchie

SDLP South Down MP Margaret Ritchie has slammed the Department for Infrastructure over the lack of accountability and their ineptitude in relation to the failures of the new MV Strangford Ferry vessel as the ramps will not allow cars to disembark from the vessel.

Durkan warns ‘fissures are being driven into foundations & bedrock of GFA’

Posted on 08/12/2016 by Mark Durkan

SDLP Foyle MP Mark Durkan has said “fissures are being driven into the foundations and bedrock of the Good Friday Agreement” and that if the key constitutional precept of consensus is not housed in any new UK-EU treaty resulting from negotiations on Brexit, we shall be in “a very serious situation”.

Attwood: Adams’ statement grotesque

Eastwood: Foster must appear before Public Accounts Committee

Posted on 07/12/2016 by Colum Eastwood MLA

SDLP Leader Colum Eastwood MLA has called for an Assembly convention that allows Ministers to escape scrutiny from the Public Accounts Committee to be waived, leaving no impediment to First Minister Arlene Foster accounting for the scandal ridden Renewable Heat Incentive scheme.

McGlone: Foster cannot wash hands of RHI scandal

Posted on 07/12/2016 by Patsy McGlone MLA

SDLP Mid Ulster MLA and former Chairperson of the Enterprise Trade and Investment Committee Patsy McGlone has criticised the Arlene Foster for her mismanagement of the Renewable Heat Incentive while she was Minister of Enterprise Trade and Investment. Mr McGlone was speaking after a Spotlight investigation into the scandal was broadcast detailing the flaws in the scheme along with the heavy cost it carried for the public purse.